To Hon. Anthony Albanese, Prime Minister of Australia​; Hon. Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada;  Hon. Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic; Hon. Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany; Hon. Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of the Republic of Italy; His Excellency Shigeru Ishiba, Prime Minister of Japan; Rt Hon. Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Hon. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America; His Excellency António Costa, President of the European Council; and Her Excellency Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commissio

We, a coalition of  146 Tibet groups, are writing to you regarding the arrest, subsequent death and unauthorised cremation of Tulku Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche, a highly revered Tibetan leader and the Abbot of Lung Ngon Monastery in Gade County, Golog, Amdo, Tibet [CH: Gande County, Guoluo Prefecture, Qinghai Province] following reports that he was arrested in Vietnam in a joint operation between Chinese and Vietnamese authorities. We urge you to demand Vietnam undertake an independent, thorough and transparent investigation into his death.  

Sources believe Tulku Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche died following his arrest in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in late March 2025, under suspicious circumstances. The Vietnamese authorities were quick to attribute Tulku Hungkar Dorje Rinpoche’s death to a heart attack, while the Chinese authorities in Tibet fleetingly presented a death certificate to Lung Ngon Monastery, but specifically banned the monastery from retaining any record or making any copies of the document.  His body was subsequently cremated in Vietnam on 20 April at 1 AM local time, without the consent of his family and under heavy security.